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Safe Injection Facilities: Could it and Should it Happen in Massachusetts?


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Opioid addiction is a nationwide public health crisis: the Center for Disease Control estimates sixty-four thousand people in the U.S. died from drug overdose in 2016. Tens of thousands more suffer from opioid addiction. We’ve been tackling opioid addiction on many fronts, but there’s one approach nine other countries are using that the United States hasn’t adopted: Supervised or Safe Injection Facilities. After looking into Safe Injection Facilities in Canada and Australia, the Massachusetts
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